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... round be times my self a möur a wake be eause pa rade a way a woke be lace po made a breast ae coil en dear pa rol är eade a loof es quire pa trol ärm ' let bap ' tist eos ' tive fres 2 TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK . 25 LESSON 50. ...
... round be times my self a möur a wake be eause pa rade a way a woke be lace po made a breast ae coil en dear pa rol är eade a loof es quire pa trol ärm ' let bap ' tist eos ' tive fres 2 TOWN'S SPELLING BOOK . 25 LESSON 50. ...
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... round ' dal ' ly in snare en trap hag gle mal treat a buse heärk en tri ' fle man " gle list en o mit neg leet chat ter ob jeet per turb op pose dis turb mum ble pest er por tray de seribe pre sume sup pose rim ple shat ter pro elaim de ...
... round ' dal ' ly in snare en trap hag gle mal treat a buse heärk en tri ' fle man " gle list en o mit neg leet chat ter ob jeet per turb op pose dis turb mum ble pest er por tray de seribe pre sume sup pose rim ple shat ter pro elaim de ...
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... round on its axis or poles . No one has yet found out of what the sun is made . It was once thought to be a ball of ... round the sun once in a year . moon goes round the earth once in a month , and both re- ceive their light and heat ...
... round on its axis or poles . No one has yet found out of what the sun is made . It was once thought to be a ball of ... round the sun once in a year . moon goes round the earth once in a month , and both re- ceive their light and heat ...
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... round ing mad der mal low man drake vis cous stick y mil let dis mal lu rid gloom y car rot sta ble fix ed stead y mul len seant y spār ing nar row murk y cloud y ob seure ' mus tard asp ie Adjectives . dump ' ish mor tal stu ' pid ...
... round ing mad der mal low man drake vis cous stick y mil let dis mal lu rid gloom y car rot sta ble fix ed stead y mul len seant y spār ing nar row murk y cloud y ob seure ' mus tard asp ie Adjectives . dump ' ish mor tal stu ' pid ...
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... round ly per verse ' ly stub ' born ly poor ly mean ly po lite ly gen teel ' ly right ly just ly pre cise ly ex act ly sage ly wise ly pri ' vate ly se ' eret ly shärp ly keen ly slug gish ly la zi ly slack ly loose ly sin ful ly wick ...
... round ly per verse ' ly stub ' born ly poor ly mean ly po lite ly gen teel ' ly right ly just ly pre cise ly ex act ly sage ly wise ly pri ' vate ly se ' eret ly shärp ly keen ly slug gish ly la zi ly slack ly loose ly sin ful ly wick ...
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accent adjectives adverbs antepenult bär cate ceive cent cial cif er ous cious cir eum column con test defined denotes its sound dent drol elam elean ence equi fore ful ly ful ness fy-ing-cation härd härm jeet leet lence less LESSON letters mean ment möve ness Nouns ol o gy ous ly pär pärt penult pertaining port preter primitive word Quadrupeds ra phy ri ous Rule ship sion sive sound as heard spell subvocal suffix syllable TABLE tain ting tion tive trans treach tude turb ture ty un vate verbs vert vocals
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Page 162 - ... twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety one hundred two hundred three hundred four hundred five hundred...
Page 162 - ... first. second. third. fourth. fifth. sixth. seventh. eighth ninth. tenth. eleventh. twelfth. thirteenth. fourteenth. fifteenth. sixteenth. seventeenth. eighteenth. nineteenth. twentieth. thirtieth. fortieth. fiftieth. sixtieth. seventieth. eightieth.
Page 116 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel...
Page 99 - March, the sun rises- exactly in the east, and sets exactly in the west.
Page 151 - If you have an enemy act kindly to him, and make him your friend. You may not win him over at once, but try again. Let one kindness be followed by another...
Page 3 - ... Letters and Spelling, let him learn these and such like Sentences by Heart." By the 1830s, however, spelling was under challenge, and textbooks rushed to redefine its value as literacy instruction. Salem Town's Spelling and Defining Book (1838) insisted that "a child being taught, both to read and to spell, should be taught, at the same time, to understand what he reads...
Page 151 - The road ambition travels is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, too dark for science, and too hilly for happiness.
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Page 158 - Punctuation and Capital Letters. PUNCTUATION. Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, to mark the different pauses which the sense requires. The principal points are the Comma, thus , Interrogation, thus ? Semicolon, ; Exclamation, ! :. • Colon...
Page 80 - ve seen him drop To call our robin in; The line that held his pretty kite, His bow, his cup and ball, The slate on which he learned to write, His feather, cap, and all!